OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #203, NOVEMBER 13, 2024.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #203, NOVEMBER 13, 2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett

Dr. Yousaf on genocide in Gaza, UAF Bell Aud. 2282, Thursday Nov. 14, 5:30.
Dick on Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nov.-Dec. 2024).   

Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, AR pediatrician, tomorrow Thurs., 5:30
You are invited to attend a testimonial event where Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, an Arkansas pediatrician and the director of an intensive care unit in Little Rock, will share his experiences providing emergency medical care during the genocide in Gaza at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah earlier this year.    The event will take place this Thursday, November 14th, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the University of Arkansas, Bell Auditorium 2282. The testimonial event is hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine UARK, and food and drinks will be provided by a local Palestinian restaurant owner.     In an interview with Al Jazeera, Dr. Yousaf explained that the Israeli occupation prevented him from bringing suitcases of medical supplies into Gaza. He stressed that the devastation he witnessed couldn’t fully be captured in a video or interview. Here are links to his interviews with the New York Times and Ozarks At Large. https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000009577656/gaza-doctor-hospitals.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/world/middleeast/gaza-al-aqsa-hospital-children.htmlhttps://www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-at-large/2024-08-20/three-weeks-in-al-aqsa-a-doctors-view-of-the-gaza-crisis
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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nov.-Dec. 2024).  (Described by Dick).    A comprehensive monthly magazine from a Palestinian perspective. 
The WRMEA “endorses U.N. Security Council Resolution 242’s land for peace formula” and solutions to the conflict “consistent with the Charter of the United Nations. . .human rights, self-determination, and fair play.”

     p. 5:  “Publisher’s Page,” a selective summary of contents: essays on the “uncontained violence” against Gaza, the threatened regional war, US partnership with Israel in the bloodshed esp. US expenditures ($22.76 billion the past year), the 2 main US political parties = One Party for war and genocide, the killing of 128 journalists and need to allow them to report and to protect them, supplement of 14 essays “Other Voices,” and promotion of its bookstore (11 books reviewed and maybe a dozen mentioned elsewhere).
      6 :  Letters (one opposes calling the Israel army (IDF) a “defense” force, another gives reasons why Israel chooses violence instead of peace, etc.  
8-15: 5 essays on Gaza by young Palestinian writers, incl. 4 who had been English majors at Islamic University of Gaza and were training with We Are Not Numbers (WANN), “a project to amplify the voices of young Palestinian writers.” 
     16: Ramzy Baroud on the killing of his sister.
     18: Israel v. Gaza and West Bank.
      22: Israeli religious extremist settlers expanding in West Bank.
     26-27: 2 essays on $financial cost of Israeli war on Palestine.
     28: pro-Israeli $PAC$ money to members of Congress.
     53-59: 4 articles on US protests:  #1&2 on divestment; #3&4 free speech.
     60: Lebanon
     62: United Nations
     64: International law
     66: Israeli war crimes.
     68: Films and TV
     71: Genocide
     76: Libya
     78: Canada
     79: Cartoons
     80:  Arab-American Activism
     81: Waging Peace: Voting, Money in Politics (28).
     83: Boycotts (53).
     86- BOOKS (also books by each of the article authors are listed: the magazine is an abundant source for books).
“Other Voices”: supplement of 14 more excellent essays given free in this number.
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